18526: Simidor Re: Esser and Maxwell (fwd)

[Bob Corbett <corbetre@webster.edu>]

From: Daniel Simidor <karioka9@mail.arczip.com>


I suggest that any person of good faith in this position go to the website of their local library, and if it is a good library portal, it will offer access to dozens of full text articles on the Nov. 26, 2000 elections.  Hint as to what you might find: that the Haitian independent press, the diplomatic missions, the foreign news organizations (AP, Reuters, Agence France Press, the NY Times, etc) all reported a 5-15% voter turnout figure.  Digging a little deeper will reveal that it is only the Aristide government and its supporters, including a small group of some 20 so-called independent observers, mostly US solidarity types, and a Lavalas-sponsored group called KOZEPEP, that flaunted the 60% figure.  The leader of the US observation group made the outlandish claim at the time that KOZEPEP had deployed some 5,000 independent observers around the country.  Where is KOZEPEP today?  But a couple of years ago, people were led to believe that this organization had the resources to train 5,000 of its own members as election monitors.

Aristide made the claim that his party will remain in power at least through 2015 in his bicentennial address.  (The same one where he refers to himself and to George W. as the “two bons that make a bonbon!”)  Nobody has to lie to make Aristide look bad, the truth is ugly enough.

Daniel Simidor